Linda Park (comics)

Linda Park
Linda Park Interior artwork from The Flash Secret Files & Origins 1 (November 1997  DC Comics). Art by Phil Jimenez.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Flash (vol. 2) #28 (July 1989)
Created by	William Messner-Loebs
In-story information
Full name	Linda Jasmine Park-West
Partnerships	Wally West

Linda Park (also Linda Park-West) is a fictional character in the DC Universe. She is best known as the girlfriend and later wife of Wally West.

Linda Park first appeared in Flash vol. 2 #28 and was created by William Messner-Loebs.

Linda Park is a Korean-American television reporter for Keystone City and regularly deals with Flash, whom she does not like. During their initial meeting she constantly hounds Flash about the recent thousands of dollars of property damage caused by his battle with the Porcupine Man. Despite this, Linda and Wally became friends on her first job for Keystone City’s KFMB Channel 4, when they team up to investigate the Celestial Enlightenment Ranch, a spiritual-retreat scam. After Wally helps Linda deal with her apparent possession by the spirit of an 800-year-old Irish bard named Seamus O’Relkig, they become close and soon begin dating. Flash's love for Linda has brought him back many times from the Speed Force. After many obstacles—such as Wally nearly being killed by the Black Flash and Linda being abducted and all memory of her erased by Abra Kadabra (the last requiring the aid of an alternate version of Wally to return home and convince Kadabra to reverse the spell)—they marry.

She eventually became one of the hosts of the television program The Scene, which is similar to the (real life) program The View. Her co-hosts included Vicki Vale, Tawny Young, and Lia Briggs. Two episodes were shown in which they interviewed Wonder Woman on her career, which was shown in that title comic. Shortly after the Wests moved into a new apartment after their old house was destroyed by Magneta, Linda left her journalism career, her relationship with Wally having made her unable to reconcile the public’s right to know against the superheroes’ chance to resolve a situation before people started to panic, instead studying medicine with the intent of becoming a pediatrician.